 Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own ; Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge. Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand...  Essai sur l'homme - Pagina 74door Alexander Pope - 1850 - 82 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 pagina’s
...in business, or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge. Truths would you teach, to save a sinking land All fear, none aid you, and few— understand. Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret sympathetic aid. Not rural sight alone, hut... | |
 | 1846 - 532 pagina’s
...and intelligence of the people, shall arrive at the desponding conclusion, " Truth would you speak, or save a sinking land, All fear, none aid you, and few understand."CRITICAL SKETCHES. ART. IX. — Love's Legends: Adhemar's Von: Bertha: The Peri. Poems... | |
 | Karl Friedrich H. Marx - 1846 - 374 pagina’s
...alone in the world, and has shared the fate which Pope describes, — " Truths would you teach, and save a sinking land, All f,ear, none aid you, and few understand." Essay on Man, Epist. iv. * There is a well-written popular account of this in Manzoni's ' Colonna Infame.'... | |
 | 1846 - 774 pagina’s
...their countenances. I felt the full force of the lamentation of the poet: " Truths would you teach, to save a sinking land, All fear, none aid you, and few understand." groups of strangers, gathered in little circles, and heard various inquiries as to the object of this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pagina’s
...know how little can be known ; To see all others' faults, and feel our own : Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without...judge. Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? 265 All fear, none aid you, and few understand. Painful pre-eminence ! yourself to view Above life's... | |
 | 1848 - 500 pagina’s
...not doomed at times to feel the force of that truth to which Pope has given poetic utterance ? — " Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand." But he well endured the "painful preeminence " to which his wisdom had brought him. He mourned that... | |
 | Goold Brown - 1848 - 324 pagina’s
...semicolon is sometimes placed between them, and the note of interrogation, after the last only ; as, " Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand." — Pope. RULE III. — QUESTIONS INDIRECT. When a question is mentioned, but not put directly as a... | |
 | 1848 - 492 pagina’s
...not doomed at times to feel the force of that truth to which Pope has given poetic utterance ? — " Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand." But he well endured the "painful preeminence " to which his wisdom had brought him. He mourned that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pagina’s
...to know how little can he known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own ; Condemn'din husiness or in arts to drudge Without a second, or without a judge j Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land; All fear, none aid you, and few undeistand. Painful... | |
 | 1848 - 736 pagina’s
...decir lu vordafl? Todos temen, ninguno os ayuda, y muy pocos os comprenden." Truths would you tell to save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand. POPE. Ha aparecido en estos' dias un cuaderno con el título de "Consideraciones sobre la situación... | |
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